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  • Title: [+Gx-tolerance by the Cosmonauts of ISS crews 1, 6-9 and visiting crews 1-7 aboard Soyuz vehicles].
    Author: Kotovskaia AR, Vil'-Vil'iams IF, Luk'ianiuk VIu, Kataev IuV.
    Journal: Aviakosm Ekolog Med; 2005; 39(5):3-9. PubMed ID: 16447946.
    Abstract:
    Analysis of +Gx tolerance of 15 members of short-term ISS missions and 9 members of long-term ISS missions aboard the Soyuz vehicles showed good tolerance during insertion and satisfactory during descent provided the use of in-flight countermeasures and anti-g suit Kentaur inside the vehicle. Objective data about the tolerance of off-nominal +Gx (6.26 and 8.1 G) pointed to a more pronounced sinus tachycardia and tachypnea in a ballistic descent following long-duration weightlessness as compared with nominal. Physiological deviations were transient, functional by character. Cardiac arrhythmia was largely observed during return to Earth. Two cosmonauts were found to develop prognostically unfavorable ECG indications during off-nominal descent. Main factors in these deviations could be age (above 45) and existence of some individual specifics of cardiac rhythm regulation. These results emphasize the necessity of more careful screening of candidates older than 45 years, as weightlessness may impact their general condition and tolerance of g-loads during return to Earth.
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